Dr Sue Chadwick

Solicitor, Strategic Advisor, Pinsent Masons

Sue’s background is as a planning solicitor in local government, and she has always combined this with an academic interest in the subject.

As well as more than 20 years of experience as a planning solicitor in the private and public sector Sue has a PhD on the meaning of sustainable development in the National Planning Policy Framework, has written books on neighbourhood planning and planning decisions and published articles in the Journal of Planning and Environmental Law on the Public Sector Equality Duty and planning and AI.

Her current research focus is digital planning. She spent a year as a Research Fellow with the ODI resulting in publication of a report Digital planning and its Implications.

Sue is a member of the London Data Board, and Chair of Business London Data Working Group. She is also a member of Brent Council Data Ethics Board, Profusion Data Ethics Advisory Board and Chair of the RED Foundation Data Ethics Steering Group

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Digital Planning in England

Practice Notes

This Practice Note examines the digital planning provisions in the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023, the provisions of the Building Safety Act 2022 relating to the ‘golden thread’ of fire safety data, the Environmental Information Regulations and the latest guidance from the Planning Inspectorate on the use of large language models to prepare evidence for submissions to planning inquiries. It also considers the wider implications of digitisation, including Human Rights, the Public Sector Equality Duty, public decision-making and planning probity. It includes recommendations on how current practice can be adjusted in readiness for the coming changes.

Planning